East Asia is home to almost a quarter of the world’s population and accounts for a fifth of its eco-nomic activity. Chinese, by a large margin, is the most widely spoken language on Earth. But its size and economic standing are by no means the only reasons for studying the region. Few areas of the world combine the length of history and the contemporary dynamism of East Asia. Knowledge of an East Asian language unlocks one of the world’s oldest, richest and most diverse stores of cultural ex-pression. In literature, art, film, religion, and popular culture, East Asia plays a crucial role in shaping world culture.

The Department of East Asian Studies provides students the opportunity to develop a deeper under-standing of the languages, cultures, and societies of the region. The department’s course offerings engage the diversity of East Asian cultures, from contemporary film and politics to ancient philosophy, and, critically, they examine the structures that have built up to define the area and render it an object of study. We offer Chinese, Japanese, and Korean from beginning to advanced levels, and a full range of courses on East Asian literature, history, thought, religion, and society. Our major and specialist programs prepare students with sufficient facility in East Asian languages to function in academic and professional situations. They also build a strong background in East Asian history, cul-tures, thought and literatures, and in the theories and methodologies involved in the study of these fields. In a time of globalization, a degree in East Asian studies can be an excellent springboard from which to launch a career in fields where bilingualism, critical analytical skills, and in-depth knowledge of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of East Asian texts and ideas are essential. Our major and specialist programs thus build the foundation for careers in teaching and research, international business and law, foreign service, and with cultural institutions.

Students seeking counseling should contact the Undergraduate Coordinator, but all members of the Department will be happy to provide advice and information about their course offerings. In conjunction with Woodsworth College, the Department offers courses during June and July at the University of Hong Kong and through the International Student Exchange Office, partiti-pates in exchange programs with universities in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore.

East Asian Studies Programs

East Asian Studies Programs

Students may enrol in the Major or Specialist Programs in East Asian Studies after having completed four full courses or their equivalent. Students who were enrolled in any EAS program prior to 2010-11 may elect to switch to the new program or follow the criteria in place for the year in which they enrolled.

Language Requirement: Both the Major and Specialist Programs require a certain proficiency in an East Asian language: second year (i.e., EAS200Y1/EAS210Y1/EAS220Y1) for Majors and third year (i.e., EAS300Y1/EAS310Y1/EAS320Y1) for specialists. Students’ language abilities will be assessed on their entering the language courses. The department reserves the right to place students in language courses appropriate to their language abilities. Note that language courses at the 100 level do not count toward the EAS Major or Specialist Programs; they may however fulfil a breadth requirement.

Students in the Major and Specialist Programs should be careful in fulfilling the faculty’s breadth requirement to satisfy area 5 (The Physical and Mathematical Universe).

Students in the Specialist program are required to attain third-year proficiency, either by completing an appropriate language course (e.g., EAS300Y1/EAS310Y1/EAS320Y1) or by demonstrating the required proficiency in the initial placement. Students without sufficient background may need to start in a lower-level language course; students whose placement assessment exempts them from the requirement must substitute a society/culture course or higher-level course in the appropriate language.

Third and Fourth Years:Additional EAS courses to a total of 11.5 meeting the following requirements: 1. At least five 300/400-series society and culture courses; 2. One full course at the 400 level.

East Asian Studies Major

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

First year:EAS103H1, EAS105H1;EAS200Y1/EAS210Y1/EAS220Y1/EAS290Y1; students’ language abilities will be assessed on entering language courses; students without sufficient background may need to start in a 100-series language course; conversely, students whose placement assessment exempts them from the requirement must substi-tute a society/culture course or higher-level course in the appropriate language.

Second Year:EAS209H1; an additional 200-series EAS course (0.5 FCE).The first and second years are dedicated to achieving a certain level of oral and written facility in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, as well as a basic understanding of East Asian cultures and of the meth-odological and theoretical underpinnings of the field of East Asian Studies.

Third and Fourth Years:Additional EAS courses to a total of seven meeting the following requirements: 1. At least two 300/400-series society and culture courses; 2. One half course at the 400 level.

East Asian Studies Minor

Enrolment in this program requires the completion of 4.0 courses.

4 full courses

Language courses cannot be used to fulfil the requirements of the Minor program.

The Department of East Asian Studies participates in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Language Citation initiative for Chi-nese, Japanese, and Korean. The study of any of these languages is a challenging and time consuming endeavour, which offers rich rewards for students interested in the cultures, societies, and economies of East Asia.

In each language the Language Citation recognizes a significant level of achievement in language study with a high level of academic success. The Citation in Chinese is available to students who earn a grade of at least B- in EAS 200Y1 or EAS201Y1 and EAS300Y1. The Citation in Japanese is available to students who earn a grade of at least B- in EAS220Y1 and EAS 320Y1. The citation is Korean is available to students who earn a B- in EAS210Y1 and EAS310Y1.

Students should note that the Language Citation is not equivalent to an academic program and that enrolment in a program is not necessary in order to earn the recognition bestowed by the Citation.

East Asian Studies Courses

EAS Language Courses:

EAS Language Courses: The Department reserves the right to place students in the language course appropriate to their level of language skill. Students who enroll in any EAS language courses and are subsequently discovered to have prior background and/or have higher language competency than is appropriate for enrolment in that course may be removed at any time at the discretion of the Department.

ChineseEAS100Y1 Modern Standard Chinese I[48T/48S]

This introductory course is intended for students with no background in Mandarin or any Chinese dialect. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students study a minimum of 550 Chinese characters. Interviews are required of all students who wish to en-roll in the course. After the first three days of classes, new students will not be admitted into the course.

This course is designed for students who can speak and understand elementary Mandarin or any Chinese of any dialect because of their family backgrounds. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students will learn a minimum of 700 characters. Interviews are required of all students who wish to enroll in the course. After the first three days of classes, new students will not be admitted into the course.

This course is a continuation of EAS100Y. Those students who are suitable for this course but are not familiar with some of the content covered in EAS100Y, especially Hanyu Pinyin, must make an effort to catch up on their own. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Interviews are required of all students who wish to enroll in the course.

EAS201Y1 Modern Chinese II for Students with Prior Background[24T/48S]

This course is a continuation of EAS101Y. Those students who are suitable for this course but are not familiar with some of the content of EAS101Y, especially Hanyu Pinyin, must make an effort to catch up on their own.The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Interviews are required of all students who wish to enroll in the course.

This course is for students who speak a Chinese dialect and have acquired basic knowl-edge of written Chinese. It teaches students to speak Mandarin and helps students de-velop their skills in reading both literary and modern texts.

This intermediate-level language course is a continuation of EAS200Y1. It aims at fur-ther developing students’ language abilities and preparing students for studying Chinese at an advanced level. By the end of this course, students should be able to converse in paragraph-length discourse and write expository essays in Chinese. Interviews are re-quired of all students who wish to enroll in the course.

This fourth-year Chinese course aims to develop students’ language abilities further at an advanced level. The course focuses on reading of literary, journalistic, and fictional writings. In this course, students will improve their reading comprehension, strengthen their writing skills and advance their speaking and listening skills through class discussions and oral presentations. Interviews are required of all students who wish to enroll in the course.

This course is designed for those with no or a very limited Japanese language background. The course aims to build students basic written and spoken skills in the language as well as provide relevant cultural information. By the end of this course, students should expect to be able to read and write simple passages, as well as 220 kanji, and to engage in simple daily conversation. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Newly admitted students and those who have formally or informally studied Japanese (e.g., at high school) must be interviewed to enroll in this course.

This course is for those with some background in the Japanese language. Ability to read and write hiragana and katakana, as well as approximately 100 basic kanji is required to enroll in this course. Students are also required to have basic proficiency in the language, including the ability to describe the locations of things and people; to describe past and non-past events and states; and to provide reasons for actions and statements. Students must also have some knowledge of basic counters. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students are required to be interviewed and, often, to take a placement test to enroll in this course.

Japanese for those who have never studied or know little about the language. Those who have successfully completed this course are able to take EAS121H1 or EAS220Y1 based on the result of a placement test.

An advanced beginners level language course. An introduction to complicated sentence structures and basic vocabulary for daily life. All four language skills are emphasized and approximately 300 kanji are introduced. Some cultural aspects are introduced as well. Both lectures and tutorials are mandatory. Open only to those whose Japanese level is equivalent to Level 4 of Japanese Language Proficiency test and/or to those who have successfully completed EAS120Y1 or a full-year Japanese language course at another academic institution. Those who have not taken EAS120Y1/EAS121H1 or do not have the appropriate prerequisite must pass a placement test followed by an interview.

Japanese for those who know a little about the language. Familiar with Hiragana, katakana and some kanji as well as basic sentence patterns. Those who have successfully completed this course are able to take EAS220Y1 or EAS320Y1Y, depending on the result of an interview and/or placement test.

Prerequisite:
Passing the placement test prepared by the host schoolExclusion:
EAS120Y1, EAS121H1Recommended Preparation:
Two-thirds of the content covered in EAS120Y1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS223Y0 Summer Japanese in Japan IIb[TBA]

Japanese for those who have completed a course equivalent to EAS120Y1/EAS121H1 or passed Level 4 of the JLPT. Those who have successfully completed this course are able to take EAS320Y1 based on the result of a placement test.

Prerequisite:
Passing the placement test prepared by the host schoolExclusion:
EAS220Y1YRecommended Preparation:
One-third of the content covered in EAS220Y1YDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

This is a lower intermediate level course. Appropriate for those who have studied Japanese for two years in an academic institution and/or who have passed Level 3 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. A strong foundation in beginners level grammar and 500 basic kanji are required. The course stresses equal development of all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing). All the classes are conducted in a seminar setting. Those who have not taken EAS220Y1or do not have the appropriate prerequisite need to pass a placement test and an interview.

Lower intermediate Japanese for those who have completed a course equivalent to EAS220Y1 or passed Level 3 of the JLPT. Those who have successfully completed this course are able to take EAS320Y1,EAS460H1, or EAS461H1 based on the result of a placement test; for EAS460H1 an interview will also be required.

Prerequisite:
Passing the placement test prepared by the host schoolRecommended Preparation:
The contents covered in EAS220Y1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS322Y0 Summer Japanese in Japan IIIb[TBA]

Lower intermediate Japanese for those who have completed a course equivalent to EAS320Y1 or passed Level 3 of the JLPT. Those who successfully have completed this course are able to take EAS320Y1, EAS460H1, or EAS461H1 based on the result of the interview and/or the placement test.

This is a high intermediate level course. Focused on oral/aural communication. Emphasis is on acquisition of vocabulary, spoken styles and commutation strategies that are required to carry formal/informal conversation in contemporary Japanese society. Native or near-native speakers are not permitted to take this course. Those who have not taken EAS320Y1and/or do not have appropriate prerequisite must attend an interview to receive permission to take this course.

This is a high intermediate level course. Focused on advanced reading and writing skills. Emphasis is on acquisition of advanced grammar, vocabulary/kanji and expressions especially in authentic written Japanese texts. Native or near-native speakers are not permitted to take this course. Those who have not taken EAS320Y1and/or do not have appropriate prerequisite must attend an interview to receive permission to take this course.

Upper Intermediate Japanese for those who are prepared to take Level 2 of the JLPT. Those who have successfully completed this course might be able to take EAS460Y1 and/or EAS461Y1 depending on the result of a placement test; for EAS460H1 an interview will also be required.

Prerequisite:
Passing the placement test prepared by the host schoolDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS463Y0 Summer Japanese in Japan IVb[TBA]

Advanced Japanese for those who have completed a course equivalent to EAS460H1 or EAS461H1 or passed Level 2 of the JLPT.

This course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, this course aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning level Korean. This course assumes that students do not have any prior knowledge of Korean.

As a continuation of EAS110Y1Y, this course is designed to help students increase their communication skills in the Korean language. Students in this course are expected to perform basic communicative functions, read and write paragraph-level texts, and conjugate verbs/adjectives accurately. Students who do not meet the prerquisite requirement are subject to an interview.

EAS216Y1 Modern Standard Korean for Students with Prior Background[48S]

For students with limited prior background in spoken and/or written Korean. Reading, speaking, writing and grammar are equally emphasized. Access is limited and based on the results of a placement interview.

As a continuation of EAS210Y1Y, this course is designed to help students improve their Korean competence at an intermediate level. The class focuses not only on oral fluency and grammar but also on reading comprehension and discussions on various issues related to contemporary Korea. Basic Hanja will be introduced. Students who do not meet the prerequisite requirement are subject to an interview.

As a continuation of EAS310Y1Y, this course is designed for advanced-level learners of Korean. By reading short essays/articles and watching films, this course aims to improve students’ proficiency in speaking, writing, listening, and reading. All classroom and online discussions are conducted entirely in Korean. Students who do not meet the prerequisite requirement need to have an interview.

This course provides various readings of original texts and newspapers for students with knowledge and language ability at least equivalent to those who have successfully completed EAS210Y1. Besides extensive reading, the course introduces 800 Chinese characters often used in mixed-scripts.

EAS379H1 The History, Structure and Politics of the Hindi Language [24P]

This course traces the origins and development of Hindi/Urdu via a multitude of Northern Indian dialects to the present day Modern Standard Hindi. The linguistic development in the late 19th and the 20th centuries is intimately linked to the emerging Indian, especially Hindu, nationalism. The politically complicated relationship between Hindi and Urdu will be highlighted. Knowledge of the devanagari script is required.

Recommended Preparation:
1 year of Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit or other Indo-Aryan languageDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS381H1 Sanskrit Narrative Literature[24S]

Ethics and worldly wisdom was taught in classical and medieval India through animal fables like the Hitopadea and the Pacatantra. Along with the later tales of the Kathsaritsgara these stories provide suitable readings for beginning Sanskritists and serve as an introduction to ancient Indian social and cultural life.

The Mahbhptrata and the Rmyana epics provide suitable and relatively easy readings for students who have completed an Introductory Sanskrit course. The epics illustrate the social, cultural and ethical values of classical and medieval India and play an important role even in modern India.

Highlights of Chinese, Japanese and Korean civilization. The focus is on political, social and intellectual history, as well as on the interactions among the three cultures.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS103H1 Premodern East Asian History[24L/12T]

Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by examining specific themes in the histories of China, Japan and Korea to roughly 1600. Required of EAS specialists and majors.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS105H1 Modern East Asian History (formerly EAS202Y,H and 204Y)[24L/12T]

Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by examining specific themes in the histories of China, Japan and Korea from roughly 1600 to the outbreak of the Cold War. Required of EAS specialists and majors.

Prerequisite:
EAS103H1Exclusion:
EAS202Y1/H1,EAS204Y1, HIS107Y1, not open to students who took EAS102Y1 in 2001-2002Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)200-series coursesEAS209H1 Approaches to East Asia (formerly EAS209Y1)[24L/12T]

Intended for EAS specialists and majors, this course introduces various approaches, theories, and methodologies for the advanced study of East Asian society and culture. Required of EAS specialists and majors.

A survey of the visual arts of China from earliest times to the end of the traditional era: the aesthetics and historical/cultural context of painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and the other arts. Field trip is included.

EAS215H1 History of Chinese Thought: Tang through Ming Periods[24L/24P]

This course examines the vibrant middle period of Chinese history a period of profound transformation in which some of the most distinctively traditional forms of thought, religious belief, artistic and literary expression, and scholarly practices emerged and developed in China. Topics studied include: the establishment of empire as a norm in China (and its implications); the rise of the literati and literati culture; the examination system; Neo-Confucian philosophy; visual culture; the sciences of the body; and popular and print culture.

A range of perspectives on contemporary Korea will be addressed. The focus is on the last four decades of political economic and socio-historical change on the Korean peninsula. Focus on South Korea with some consideration of North Korea. Subjects include the developmental state, democratization, neoliberalism, transnationalism, and multiculturalism.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS233H1 History of Chinas Performing Arts[24L]

An historical overview of Chinese theatre, a reading of selected texts, viewing of videotaped performances and class discussions of the characteristics of this art form. Enrolment priority: Given to students enrolled in an EAS program and Drama students.

Lectures on Japanese literary negotiations with China, the Chinese and Chineseness, ranging from celebration of the same cultural practice, to nativist resistance to China the hegemonic, to aestheticization of China the ex-otic/erotic. Required readings are available in English translation, which include: Tale of Genji, Tale of Middle-Councillor Hamamatsu (medieval romance); Haku Rakuten (No Play); Battles of Coxinga (Kabuki play); Three-Cornered World (by Soseki); Wild Goose (by Ogai).

This is an introductory course, both historical and systematic, to the major philosophical traditions in China, such as Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and their historical development from ancient to modern times in four periods: the emergence of Confucianism, Daoism, and other minor schools; the introduction of Buddhism and the development of various sects of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism; the development of modern Chinese Philosophy. Major thinkers, basic concepts and texts, and their historical contexts will be the focus of discussion.

A survey of the history of pre-modern Japan from earliest recorded histories to the establishment of the Tokugawa regime in the seventeenth century. Uses a wide range of translated primary Japanese texts to illuminate the emergence of cultural forms and their conjunction with social, economic, religious and political trends.

Prerequisite:
EAS103H1Exclusion:
EAS246H1 taken prior to 2010-11.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS246H1 Early Modern Japanese History[24L]

A survey of the history of Japan from about 1600 until the disintegration of the Tokugawa regime in the mid-19th century. Uses a wide range of translated primary Japanese texts to illuminate the emergence of cultural forms and their conjunction with social, economic, religious and political trends.

Recommended Preparation:
EAS102Y1/EAS103H1/EAS105H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS247H1 History of Capitalism in Modern Japan[24L]

This course provides an historical narrative of the development of the capitalist mode of production in Japan, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Readings will include texts from various disciplines: economics, philosophy, social and labor history, literature.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS251H1 Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea[24L]

This lecture course examines key questions and texts in the history of literature from the Korean peninsula during the twentieth century, exploring how aesthetic form has refracted the experiences of colonialism, division, and the formation of opposing nation-states.

A survey course of major works in premodern Chinese literature, including poetry, essays, and short narratives from the pre-Qin through Tang eras (11th BCE 10th C CE). Readings are available in translation and in the original. All lectures and coursework are in English. Enrolment priority: Students enrolled in an EAS subject POST.

A survey course of major works in premodern Chinese literature, including poetry, essays, short narratives and drama from the Song through Qing dynasties (10thC 19thC). Readings are available in translation and in the original. All lectures and coursework are in English. Enrolment priority: Students enrolled in an EAS subject POST.

A survey of the history of Korea from the Tonghak uprising and Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, through the colonial period, division, and civil war, to the democratization movement.

Exclusion:
EAS271Y1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS271Y1 20th Century Korean History[48L]

A survey of the history of Korea from the Tonghak uprising and Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, through the colonial period, division, and civil war, to the democratization movement.

Exclusion:
EAS271H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS272H1 Post-War Korean Society & Culture[24L]

This course focuses on critical analysis of South Korean film and literature as a way of understanding political and cultural contexts of post-Korean War South Korean Society and Culture. This class is devoted to developing critical perspectives on historical context and cultural representation of Korea. In particular, it introduces students to ongoing construction of identities about marginalized Koreans through major political incidents, such as Kwangju uprising, and LA incident.

Prerequisite:
EAS271Y1/EAS271H1; EAS209Y1/EAS209H1 for EAS studentsExclusion:
EAS351H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS284H1 Modern Chinese Literature[24L]

This course offers a critical examination of twentieth-century Chinese literature. It aims to explore the various ways of being modern as well as different meanings of writing Chinese literature. We will focus upon the important developments of literary writing over time, from the inception of New Literature in the 1910s, the development of realism and modernism of the 1930s, to the emergency of post-revolution and postmodernist writings of the 1990s. Great emphasis is also placed on generating a dialogue on interpretations of key works. In doing so, we will be exercising the skills of reading literary works in terms of aesthetic choices and strategies of cultural politics.

The Partitiion of British India in 1947 resulted in two countries, one million people murdered, and another 14 mil-lions displaced. Through a selection of Partition films (subtitled) this course will analyze and discuss these tragic events. It will surely be helpful for modern South Asian students to understand their grandparents and the ongoing tension between India and Pakistan.

A course about the general issue of environmental crisis, with a special focus on its representations in the media, film, and writing about East Asia.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1) + Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS295Y0 Selected Topics in East Asian Studies, 200-level[TBA]

This course allows students to pursue the specialized study of specific topics tailored to the research and study opportunities available in Hong Kong and the expertise and interests of the instructor. Available only in the Woodsworth College Hong Kong Summer Program.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None

EAS297H1 Texts, Images and Objects in East Asia [24P]

Understanding East Asian Civilizations through Texts, Images and Objects exhibited in ROM. With lectures on the theoretical and historical background, students will study various types of texts, paintings, bronzes, architectures, sculptures, porcelains and other objects, pending on the focus of each year, and explore their historical, aesthetic and critical meanings.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None300-series coursesJMC301Y1 State & Society in 20th Century China [48L]

This course explores China’s efforts to construct a modern and effective political order in the face of powerful demographic and revolutionary challenges. The clash between competing ideologies, political and social movements and institutional alternatives in the context of rapid social and economic change are analyzed. (Given by the Departments of East Asian Studies and Political Science.) Not offered in 2011-12.

Prerequisite:
EAS102Y1/EAS105H1/HIS280Y1/HIS328Y1/JMC201Y1/POL215Y1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities or Social Science courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS303H1 Technology of Social Engineering: Women in 20th Century East Asia[24L]

This course aims to teach how East Asian modern societies were engineered by projecting women into particular being/positions. The discourse surrounding the new woman in early 20th century and industrial motherhood/wifehood in the late 20th century in Japan, China, and Korea will be the central theme.

A survey of representative works of prose written by twentieth-century Chinese writers. This course focuses on reading texts, as well as analyzing their textual structure, aesthetic values, and historical context. Readings are available in translation and in the original.

This course will examine the historical development of Japanese monsters, from roughly the 7-8th centuries to modern times. We will focus on how the changing understanding of monsters in society has embodied certain fissures in Japanese culture, especially with regard to gender and class.

Modernism is one of the important cultural heritages of the last century that call for critical reflections in light of novel perspectives and new methodologies. Postmodern critical thinking and postcolonial scholarships have in particular made significant impact on ways of rethinking modernism across national histories. This course takes various forms of modernism(s) across China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as the object of study, and the postcolonial and postmodernist approaches to modernism as the refashioned methodological possibilities. Readings of main modernistic writings, studying cinema and arts originated from the above different localities. Discussions on such questions as how can theoretical generalizations about modernism be adequately grounded in interconnected histories, languages, as well as experiences of colonialism and modernity? How does the temporality of modernism get translated across different locations of writing? How do we understand the lines of solidarity and tension among artists and writers of different camps or localities? The goal of this course is not to find a better definition for modernism but to release modernisms to fresh ways of thinking and imagination.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS324H1 Mysticism in East Asia Revisited[24L]

In this course we will explore the topic of mysticism in East Asia by paying close attention to and questioning the relation between the metaphors, experiences, texts, behaviors, practices, and objects that we often label mystical. Sources from Daoism, Buddhism, local cults, medicine, new religions, and popular media in East Asia will be consulted.

In this course we will examine the history of the body and its relation to particular forms of religiosity in East Asia. What influence did the religious traditions of this region have on the way in which the body was constructed and disciplined? What role did the body play in the development of these traditions? Both pre-modern and modern forms of religiosity will be considered.

The focus is on modern Japanese literature, with special attention given to literatures relation to the nation. Students track how this literature transforms throughout Japanese modernity and how its meaning and effects function to simultaneously tie together and pull apart national identity.

Prerequisite:
At least one course in literature or East Asian StudiesDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS330H1 Narrative Strategies in Modern Japanese Fiction[24L]

Discussion of narratives by Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Tanizaki Junichiro, and Ibuse Masuji, with attention to issues in narratology and contemporary narrative studies such as: the voice and perspective; the gender and power relationships of the narrator-narratee-narrated; the act of narrating, writing, listening and reading; and metafictional paradox. Reading are assigned from secondary and theoretical materials. All readings are available in English.

This course considers the problem of colonial modernism through a close reading of literary and other cultural tests from early 20th century Korea. It asks what it means to enter modernity under colonial rule, and questions the relationship between imperialism, writing and subjectivity in particular. Topics covered include the role of literature in elaborating new concepts of subjectivity, literature and the fine arts as assimilatory practices, the emergence of urban space and consequent reconfiguration of notions of the rural, and changing notions of time and space in the cultural products of nativism. Readings of literary works will be accompanied by showings of paintings and photographs from the period, as well as discussion of theoretical essays on modernism.

This course will examine some major issues of classical Daoist thought, such as Dao and cosmos, body and self, human nature, language and knowledge, political visions etc., based on both textual and ideological analysis of some Daoist works such as the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and some Huanglao Daoist texts, to be updated with recently unearthed manuscripts in silk and bamboo slips.

This course examines, through philosophical, religious and literary texts, the various ways in which pre-modern Chinese thinkers, from antiquity to the seventeenth century, conceived and represented the emotions, and the role that emotions played in the evolving conception of selfhood.

Recommended Preparation:
One course on modern China or East Asia or equivalentDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

This course looks at China in regional perspective, including issues of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Peoples Republic of China economic integration. The role of overseas Chinese communities globally and in Southeast Asia also receives attention. The form and focus of the course varies according to class and instructor interests. Normally, offered only in the Hong Kong Summer Program.

Exclusion:
EAS345H1Recommended Preparation:
One course on modern China or East Asia or equivalentDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS346H1 Self and Imagination in Pre-Modern China[48L]

In this course we will explore the diverse and intriguing ways in which subjectivity was conceived in pre-modern China (up to the twelfth century) by way of the various images thinkers invoked to make sense of it. Works studied include: Warring States philosophical treatises; Buddhist and religious Daoist texts on meditation and self-cultivation; literary theory and poetry; philosophical prose essays by literati; and painting.

The history of modern Japan as revealed by the problem of everyday life and its relationship to capitalism. Using a range of literary, philosophical, economic and ethnographic materials that deal with the development of capitalism in Japan, Japanese colonialism, imperialism and fascism, the course explores ways to specify and critique what is called everyday life.

Recommended Preparation:
EAS247H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS357H1 From Socialism to Postsocialism[24L]

This course introduces major issues and events in contemporary Chinese history from the success of the Communist revolution in 1949 to Chinas postsocialist transitions toward a capitalist modernity in the 1980s and early 1990s. It examines Chinas multifaceted transformations both chronologically and thematically, in its socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects. Topics include the development and victory of the Chinese Communist revolution; the rule and legacy of Mao Zedong, particularly the Hundred Flowers movement, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution; economic reform and political repression (especially the Tiananmen crisis in 1989) in the era of Deng Xiaoping. Close attention will also be paid to the impact of global factors on Chinas domestic development. Readings are assigned from both secondary literature and English translations of primary materials.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS358Y1 Classical Chinese (formerly EAS206Y1)[48S]

An introduction to the Classical Chinese language with emphasis on grammatical analysis and translation into English. Open only to students enrolled in an EAS major or specialist subject POSt.

Prerequisite:
at least 4 EAS half coursesExclusion:
EAS206Y1, EAS306Y1, EAS335Y1Recommended Preparation:
two or more years of Modern Standard ChineseDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS361Y1 Zen Buddhism[48L]

This course serves as an introduction to the Zen Buddhist traditions of China, Korea, and Japan. A heavy emphasis is placed on the radical views of history, language, ritual, self, and enlightenment espoused by these traditions. The course also examines issues related to Zen monasticism, the development of koans, and the definition of orthodoxy in both premodern and modern Zen. Students will be asked to explore these and other topics by paying close attention to the historical, doctrinal, and institutional contexts from which they arose. Readings include both primary material in translation and secondary scholarship.

No understanding of contemporary Chinese is possible without understanding the ramifications of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). This course seeks to consider this tumultuous episode as a field of historical research and conceptual inquiry: What was the meaning of culture in the Cultural Revolution? To what extent was it revolutionary? What did really it mean to talk about class and class struggle during the movement? How is the Cultural Revolution remembered and represented? And, how do we understand Chinas globalizing present in the historical context of the Cultural Revolution? This course invites you to explore such questions by critically examining a wide variety of sources, including scholarly accounts, official documents, personal memoirs, oral histories, and literary works.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS366H1 Lovers & Madmen in Chinese Literature[24L]

A thematic introduction to some of Chinas major literary texts by taking as our guide the lover and the madman as both writer and subject. We will use the idea of lover and madman to explore issues such as social and behavioral boundaries, desire, violence, narrative compulsion, and the re-imagination of tradition.

EAS369Y1 Transformation of Buddhist Practice in the Contemporary World[48L]

The course explores various forms of traditional Buddhist practice in relation to Buddhist philosophy, and observes the transformation of these practices in the contemporary world. Principal studies include Theravada tradition, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Pure Land and Chan traditions. To provide a foundational understanding of Buddhist philosophy and its relation to meditative practice. This course will also examine the influence of Buddhism on films and material culture.

This heavy writing course offers a selective introduction to debates and problems in the writing of north and south Korean history.

Prerequisite:
EAS272H1, EAS209H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS373H1 Choson History[24L]

This course examines various approaches economic, social, gender, political, international, and cultural to the history of Choson Korea.

Prerequisite:
EAS271H1/EAS272H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS374H1 Modern Japan and Colonialism[48L]

This course interrogates the history of Modern Japan from the perspective of Japans colonial exploits in East Asia. The course will also address the political-economy and culture of the military Occupation of Japan by the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers. Texts from economics, philosophy and literature will be used.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS375H1 Postwar Japan: Crisis, Apocalypse [24L]

This writing and reading intensive course explores the history of the postwar period in Japan and its former colo-nies in order to delineate a way to think of the idea of apocalypse in relation to the phenomenon of crisis in ad-vanced capitalism. Through an examination of the history of capitalist crisis in postwar Japan, the course will in-vestigate themes of apocalypse in atomic-bomb literature, television and Godzilla, radical students movements of the 1960s, ecological-industrial disasters, worker art movements, debates on modernity and fascism, avant-garde theatre, popular music, the phenomenon of the “freeter”, religious movements, nationalism and populism, and the so-called “ageing population” problem. The course will revolve around texts by philosophers, economics, novelists, essayists, artists and critics, as well as some films and audio recordings.

An exploration of most important cities of Tokugawa Japan. Among the largest cities of the early modern world, the three were home to a vibrant urban culture and remarkable economic activity. The framework is historical, but the texts will be divers buildings, maps, screen paintings, prints, film, and novels will be studied.

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/EAS209H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS389Y1 History of Korean Religion[48L]

This course offers a broad overview of Korean religious tradition.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS393H1 Topics in Buddhism[24L]

Topics will vary according to the instructor’s interest. A sub-title will be provided to indicate topic to be discussed for the academic session.

This course discusses variations of documentary film and DV culture in contemporary China as forms of cultural, communal, and political practices. We will be focusing on those films and videos that seek to address important global issues such as peace and climate change in cross-media approach and in personal tone. We will be asking what new tendencies are there in the films and videos, where can we trace them back to, and what fresh possibilities are they to bring forth to our aesthetic and public life.

This course allows students to pursue the specialized study of specific topics tailored to the research and study opportunities available in Hong Kong and the expertise and interests of the instructor. Available only in the Woodsworth College Hong Kong Summer Program.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None

EAS396H1 Practical Learning in East Asia[24L]

This course explores the development of Practical Learning and its ramification in East Asia. We focus on how it originates from late Ming China as shixue and ramified to Korea as silhak and Japan as jitsugaku, and mediates between classical and modern East Asia and lays the foundation for Asian theories of modernity.

In-depth examination of five to six selected men and women through close reading of their literary repertoire and through biography and autobiography. The material will introduce concepts such as memory, literati identity, aesthetic theories, gender, and social transformations in the Ming and Qing period. Prerequisite: EAS209Y1/H1

Required for final year EAS specialists. Students will work on their own research projects with the goal of completing a polished, original research paper of 25-30 pages. The first semester focuses on research methodology, while the second half is conducted as a writing course, focusing on (re)writing, editing and peer review.

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/EAS209H1 and permission of the instructorDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None

EAS406Y1 Thinking about things: Material Culture in East Asia[48S]

Intensive seminar exploring theories of the object, the histories of objects in East Asia, and critical thinking about the process of research. Through theoretical readings, class and individual research projects, the seminar asks how to formulate research questions, use the internet and other resources, and present discoveries in a class conference.

A general survey of modern Taiwanese literature from 1949 until today. It attempts to examine issues such as historical/cultural context, oral/written language, self-identification, gender, human rights, etc., central to understanding the Taiwanese experience. Readings are available in translation and in the original.

EAS409H1 The Cosmopolitan City in Premodern China: Changan (formerly EAS367H1)[24S]

This research-intensive course will introduce multiple ways of looking at the ancient capital of Changan (present-day Xian). Focus will be on the rich literary, cultural and material tradition associated with it from the onset of the dynastic era to the Golden Age of the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD).

Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: EAS209Y1/H1 Exclusion:
EAS367H1Recommended Preparation:
Some familiarity with Chinese history in the middle periodDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS411H1 Art and Archaelogy of Early China I[24P]

With extensive introduction to recent archaeological discoveries in China, this course explores development of ancient societies from prehistory to the Bronze Age of China, and to offer students with an understanding of the origins and formation of Chinese civilizations.

Prerequisite:
Only for third or fourth year Arts & Science students.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS412H1 Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China[24P]

This course introduces students to the technology and material culture of prehistoric and Bronze-Age China. The course is designed for students to have an understanding of the development of ancient technologies (e.g. bronze, jade, and lacquer) and associated life of ancient China from archaeological perspectives.

Prerequisite:
EAS411H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS413H1 Medieval Chinese Civilization[24S]

This course explores the intellectual culture of the Six Dynasties in China (3rd through 6th centuries C.E.), a vibrant period in which many new forms of thought and expression flourished. Texts studied include historical anecdotes, Buddhist and Daoist scriptures, self-cultivation manuals, philosophical exegeses, and treatises on music, art, and poetics.

This course will focus on theories of Chinese arts by critically analyzing various theoretical texts on music, painting, calligraphy, literature, in the form of special treatises and documents recorded in the Classics.

This intensive seminar focuses on the circulation of people (and as consequence, words and ideas) throughout East Asia and Central Asia in the premodern era. Texts include the diaries of the Japanese monk Ennin, a we try to understand the world such travellors searched for or encountered of.

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS431H1 Advanced Topics in Japanese Cinema[24S]

The focus ranges from the examination of cross-cultural theoretical problems (such as Orientalism) to a director-based focus, from the examination of genre (such as documentary or the category of genre itself) to the way film intersects with other cultural forms and technologies (such as Video and New Media).

The Korean Cultural Studies Seminar provides the opportunity for in-depth reading and research into a specific topic in the cultural and intellectual history of Korea. Topics will vary each semester but might include colonial period print culture, the New Woman, the history of photography, and modernism.

Prerequisite:
Permission of the instructorDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS438H1 Architecture in Pre-modern China[24S]

Survey of Chinas architecture from the Song dynasty. Subjects include design (including fengshui); the role of architects and craftsmen; building techniques and materials; and the logistics and financing of building projects. Seminar format, with readings (Yingzao fashi, Lu Ban jing, geomantic treatises), and visits to the Royal Ontario Museum.

EAS439H1 The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time and Colonialism[24S]

Through a sustained reading of several novels this course studies Bildungsroman, the story of an individuals coming of age, in the context of twentieth-century political, cultural, and social developments of imperialism, anti-colonialism, human rights discourse, and globalization. Our focus will be novels from the (post)colonial world and theoretical essays on the Bildungsroman form. The course aims to provide a model for rethinking literary history and literary genres within a global context. We will thus not read these novels as copies of European Bildungsroman, but consider how their form relates to social formations of colonialism and globalization. This will entail, for example, exploring the temporal structure which undergirds both the form of the novel and the notion of self-development that is then aligned with development of the nation, colony, or otherwise. Attention will be paid both to how these novels instantiate, resist or otherwise engage creatively with the novelistic conventions of human development, and to our own desire to read novels as Bildungsroman. Authors may include Yi Kwangsu, Wu Zhouliu, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Kang Younghill, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Camara Laye, amongst others.

Examines how the city and body exert formative forces on the text, and how the practice of writing and reading texts might inform the ways we, corporeal beings, experience the city as manifested in the nineteenth century Japanese literature. Required readings are available in English.

Prerequisite:
at least one course in literature, cinema, or visual art successfully completed.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS448H1 East Asian Studies Archive: Language, Number, Money[24S]

This course inquires into salient problems of the historical archive in relation to the experience of modernity in East Asian societies. What is the meaning of the modern archive in East Asia? How is the knowledge of the modern archive produced in relation to the production of quantitative knowledge (e.g., in demographic or economic statistics)? How should we approach the relationship between number and language? How is this knowledge transformed into state knowledge as well as into what we call common sense? A seminar with a research component; students will be required to submit a substantial research paper at the end of the course.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS453H1 Gender, Sexuality & Modernity in China, Korea and Japan[24S]

This course focuses on the changing sexual mores and the challenges to the traditional gender systems of East Asia brought by the processes of modernization and globalization/westernization.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS456H1 Japan as seen by ?: Reference, Apparatus, Operation[24S]

Discusses how images of Japan, charged with varied degrees of desire for empirical knowledge, have contributed to contemporary novels and plays by David Mitchell, Ruth L. Ozeki, David Mamet, Joy Kogawa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marguerite Duras, and David Hwang. All the readings, including Japanese literary and theoretical, are available in English.

Analyzing contemporary monographs on modern Japanese history. This course will offer a critical survey of existing methodologies and approaches to writing about Modern Japan.

Prerequisite:
EAS247H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS458H1 Classical Chinese II (formerly EAS306Y1)[24S]

As a continuation of EAS358Y1 (formerly EAS206Y1), this course helps students to gain more in-depth control of grammatical struc-tures and to read longer texts in classical Chinese with greater ease. Requirements include a major re-search/translation project. Open only to students enrolled in an EAS Major or Specialist subject POSt.

Prerequisite:
EAS206Y1 (minimum 79%)Exclusion:
EAS306Y1, EAS335Y1Recommended Preparation:
three or more years of Modern Standard Chinese, EAS206Y1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

This is a seminar course for upper level undergraduate students who are interested in reading ethnographic literature. This course introduces contemporary ethnographic literature written in English on South Korea. Despite the textual focus on anthropological writing, it covers interdisciplinary inquiry into cultural and historical concepts that have shaped peoples lives in South Korea. This class is run as a dynamic seminar course with class discussions structured around students presentations, and with writing and rewriting research paper.

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/H1 for EAS studentsDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

Reads and discusses seminal theoretical literature, photo roman (by, e.g., Abe, Nakagami), and narratives about photography (by, e.g., Tanizaki, Kanai, Horie), to examine the rhetorical complicity and coercion of the two modes of representation which both emerged in the modern and nationalistic age, and persist, in the wake of the newer media, as dominant registers of everyday life and departures from there.

Prerequisite:
At least one course in humanities (literature, art history, philosophy); or reading proficiency in JapaneseDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS473H1 Modern Korean History Seminar[24S]

An examination of recent research results in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Prerequisite:
EAS271Y1/EAS271H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS475Y1 Issues in East Asian Historiography[48L/48T]

This course analyses select topics in the historiography of East Asian. Students are expected to write a major research paper of 30-40 pages in the second semester.

Recommended Preparation:
EAS209Y1/EAS209H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS476Y1 Democracy and History in Korea[48S]

This course examines approaches to the history of the south Korean democracy movement and the role of history within the democracy movement itself.

Recommended Preparation:
EAS271Y1/H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS478Y1 Samurai Culture [48S]

Intensive seminar exploring one of Japan’s most recognizable figures, the samurai. This course investigates the historical reality of warrior life along with the legends, with focus on the ways in the warrior’s world found expression in religion, art, and literature. The seminar leads to the preparation of a significant research paper (25-30 pp)

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/H1, EAS245H1/EAS246H1/EAS247H1Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS484Y1 The Japanese Empire [48S]

Course surveys historical literature on the Japanese Empire. A heavy reading and writing course intended for majors and specialists in East Asian Studies. The second semester will require a major research paper.

Prerequisite:
EAS209Y1/EAS209H1Recommended Preparation:
Courses in modern East Asian history.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS485H1 Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit[24S]

This course will study Buddhist narrative literature written in a particular kind of Sanskrit which actually is a Sanskritized version of vernacular languages. Its vast literature, such as the Mahvastu, the Sukhvativyha, the Saddharmapundarika and the Jtakas belongs mainly to Mahyana Buddhism.

Prerequisite:
EAS282Y1, EAS381H1 and EAS383H1 or equivalentDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS486H1 Aspects of Classical and Medieval Indian Culture Through Sanskrit Texts[24S]

This course presents diverse mundane aspects of Indian social and culture life through selected texts on music, dance, agriculture, medicine, theatre, sports and games, hunting, cuisine, gardening, and so on. Although these texts illuminate and explain classical and medieval Hindu culture, they have rarely been translated into English.

Prerequisite:
EAS282Y1, EAS381H1 and EAS383H1 or equivalent.Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS488H1 Hinduism and Politics[24L]

The political expression of Hinduism begins with religious reform movements in the 19th century, and develops into a Hindu nationalism. Although independent India is a secular state, Hindu fundamentalism remains a powerful political force. This course analyzes modern Hindu political ideology.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS488Y1 Hinduism and Politics[48L]

The political expression of Hinduism begins with religious reform movements in the 19th century, and develops into a Hindu nationalism. Although independent India is a secular state, Hindu fundamentalism remains a powerful political force. This course analyzes modern Hindu political ideology.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS490H1 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Syntax and Semantics[72L]

This course introduces Japanese grammatical items in a scientifically and theoretically oriented manner. The goals of the course are: to gain knowledge of the basic characteristics of sentence structure and meaning in Japanese; to become familiar with selected theoretical analyses; and to develop a repertoire of linguistic vocabulary.

A guided research course on a common topic of the students choice. Students are required to produce a 20-30 page paper based on the selected topic.

Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None

EAS496H1 Topics in East Asian Studies[24S]

An in-depth study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content in any given year depends on the instructor.

Recommended Preparation:
Varies from year to yearDistribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseBreadth Requirement: None

EAS497H1 Beyond Orientalism[24S]

This course will confront the Orientalist view of the world by looking at one Asian nation regularly exempted from that paradigmJapan. By examining, among other topics, Japans emperor system, its construction of a national history, and its own imperialism, this course hopes to point toward other ways of thinking about East and West.